By Paul Oliver

On Sale: Mar 22, 1989
Page Count: 302 pages
Publisher: Da Capo
ISBN-13: 9780306803444

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The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions–musical and religious–and tracing the origin of the blues through the dense, many-colored warp and weft of influences and inspiration. He describes “the dozens,” Christmas rituals, and the coded (as well as blatant) sexual imagery that has always been a vital element of every popular song tradition. With extensive source notes, photographs, a discography, and two indexes of song titles and singers, this book serves as a sound, serious, and entertaining guide to the blues heritage that has vitalized so much of the world’s musical culture.

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Paul Oliver

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Paul Oliver is an eminent writer on the history of the blues. From an early age he collected blues records and books on the blues, publishing his first article in Jazz Journal in 1951. Since that time he has published dozens of books on the history of the blues and blues music, including Conversations with the Blues, The Story of the Blues, and Blues Fell this Morning. He lives in Oxford, England.

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